Wendy James is the author of eight novels, including the bestseller The Golden Child, The Mistake, and The Lost Girls. Her debut novel, Out of the Silence, won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for best first novel and was short-listed for Australia's prestigious Nita May Dobbie Award for women's writing. The Golden Child was short-listed for the 2017 Ned Kelly Award for fiction. Wendy has a PhD from the University of New England and works as an editor, teacher, and researcher. She lives in the coastal city of Newcastle with her husband and two of their four children.
